My mother has mineral rights in several states but has moved several times in the last few years and has not sent change of address notification. I am trying to help her find out what is going on with all these rights. The only information we have is the county, state and a series of numbers such as: "22-14-26 NE 1/2". It is not possible for us to travel to these states to go to the court house. Any suggestions?
Thank you.
The numbers you state are very likely the legal description of the property, meaning Township (22) range (14) and section (26) followed by the designation NE 1/2 which is probably in error. The NE 1/4 would be the more likely correct description because the NE designation refers to a quarter of a section, or 160 acres.
These minerals would be recorded at the County Clerks office in the counties where these minerals are located. As has been posted, this sounds like a legal description of minerals. Sounds like you or your representative will need to do some record research at these offices.
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Ed said:
The numbers you state are very likely the legal description of the property, meaning Township (22) range (14) and section (26) followed by the designation NE 1/2 which is probably in error. The NE 1/4 would be the more likely correct description because the NE designation refers to a quarter of a section, or 160 acres.
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charles s mallory said:
These minerals would be recorded at the County Clerks office in the counties where these minerals are located. As has been posted, this sounds like a legal description of minerals. Sounds like you or your representative will need to do some record research at these offices.
The busier oil and gas producing states each have a website with database access allowing the public to research existence of wells on/near their property, the status of them, and in many cases production history. Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and North Dakota all have websites with databases. A trip to the courthouse shouldn't be necessary. If you want to make certain that each county tax assessor/collector has your mother's current address, I would start with calling each county property tax office and asking them what format they prefer a change of address be in, where to mail it, and find out if your mother's tax account is current (paid up).
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Marsha Breazeale said:
The busier oil and gas producing states each have a website with database access allowing the public to research existence of wells on/near their property, the status of them, and in many cases production history. Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and North Dakota all have websites with databases. A trip to the courthouse shouldn't be necessary. If you want to make certain that each county tax assessor/collector has your mother's current address, I would start with calling each county property tax office and asking them what format they prefer a change of address be in, where to mail it, and find out if your mother's tax account is current (paid up).
If you know the county and state where the property is located the best way to proceed is to hire an independent landman in that region to compile a mineral history for you of the properties. The landman will most likely charge you $3-400/day to do so, just give him all the information you have about the property. Mineral title searches are more difficult than surface ownership title searches because non-producing mineral estates are not taxed. Therefore, unlike surface ownership, it is not possible to simply search the tax rolls to see who is currently paying the property taxes in order to get a good idea of who owns the property. I would not advise you to try to accomplish this on your own if you don’t have experience doing so.
If this holding is Roger Mills County, Oklahoma you own a piece of the Abraham 1-22 operated by Samson Resources. This well has been produing since 4/1/80 and is on it's last leggs. The cumulative production is 44,234,810 MCF's of gas and 61,180 barrels of oil. There are newer horizontal Granite Wash wells west and north. API 35-129-20404